Azure Cosmos DB Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Azure Cosmos DB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 122 109
Rank change year-on-year -12 -13 +12
Contract jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB 8 2 15
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.34% 0.11% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 0.27% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 8
10th Percentile £486 £627 -
25th Percentile £496 £639 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £669 £469
Median % change year-on-year -21.50% +42.67% -21.88%
75th Percentile £563 £689 £600
90th Percentile £605 £696 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £669 £500
% change year-on-year -21.50% +33.75% -16.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

Azure Cosmos DB falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 939 741 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.40% 40.87% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 500 570
10th Percentile £375 £339 £375
25th Percentile £463 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £552
Median % change year-on-year - -0.32% -4.04%
75th Percentile £656 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +25.93% -10.74%

Azure Cosmos DB
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure Cosmos DB relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Azure Cosmos DB job vacancy trend in the City of London

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Cosmos DB.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Cosmos DB in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Cosmos DB in the City of London

Azure Cosmos DB
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (25.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (37.50%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
2 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) Gradle
2 3 (37.50%) Maven
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Database Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Java Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Junior
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Java Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Java Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Junior Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Spring
2 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
3 3 (37.50%) Kafka
3 3 (37.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (37.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) NgRx
4 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Cloud Native
2 6 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) Microservices
2 6 (75.00%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Event-Driven
3 5 (62.50%) Observability
4 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (37.50%) API Design
5 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
5 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
5 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Agile
7 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
7 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce
7 1 (12.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Adyen